Issue 182 - March 27, 1995

We knew from the start that the cease-fire in Bosnia wouldn't last. There were signs that the fighting would start sooner than anyone anticipated but there won't be any decisive operations on the Bosnian front lines this year

Whether in four months, or I don't know when, the Bosnian Moslem army and Croat Defence Council (HVO) will certainly act together. That is beyond doubt and we have introduced measures in that sense to redeploy part of the operative joint headquarters from Sarajevo to coordinate those combat activities

The leader of the Radicals was rejected by Krajina foreign minister Babic but embraced by president Milan Martic

Leader of the Socialist deputy group in Federal Parliament Milomir Minic said cynically that the paper Nasa Borba had in fact "betrayed" the opposition by coming out, and that by being printed it denied claims that there was no free press

There is nothing new in the fact that businessmen don't know until the very last moment under what conditions they will be working the next day, in this case, from April 1st. What is new is that the authorities have cautioned publicly that a continuation of the present policy would mean the proclamation of a controlled economy and an end to the little freedom left in doing business

The situation today is far more difficult than during the time of the compulsory buy-up, because rich farmers were ruined then, and everybody is being ruined now

There is a jaundice epidemic in Rozaje. The boring, persistent, infectious hepatitis A virus moved into this Montenegrin town (1000 meters above sea level) in August last year and reached epidemic proportions in November

The murmuring in Belgrade's halls of justice is that the police are being trained to prevent riots and guard the villas in Dedinje but can't cope with increasingly brutal criminals

This is an excerpt from a summary of the debate on Kosovo, organized by VREME. The complete dossier can be ordered specially from the VREME News Digest Agency